How $1.5 Billion Was Allegedly Stolen In Pakistan | The Big Steal

The Bhuttos are amongst a few hundred feudal families, mostly large landowners, that have dominated politics and business in Pakistan since its creation in 1947. In the eyes of the west, Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto was a beacon of democracy and a staunch foe of Muslim extremism, but at home, the slain opposition leader was a controversial figure, mired in allegations of corruption and accused of acquiring wealth, worth over 1.5 billion dollars.

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[maximumpayne]

My grandmother remembered when she came into power twice. She told me that she did nothing for women. Instead she made corruption mainstream in Pakistan. Her only achievement according to my grandmother was bring Cable/Satellite TV.

[ahsanhabib]

The main problem in asia is worship of personalities hailing from big families until this changes and we have leaders from grass root nothing can change.

[Kioki-xp]

Benazir was a very sick woman. Not the saint that most people make her out to be.

[IceMaidenxx]

This isn't even 'casual' corruption. This is 'making my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, grandchildren' billionaires level corruption.

Some people really have no shame.

What's so jarring is that the first time I heard about Mrs Bhutto was through a BBC podcast on 'great figures' in history and they were so glowing and almost sickly. But I bought into it hard *sigh* 😔

[AbeKebe]

I remember when I was a teenager in an event in Europe like a decade ago. I met her nephew and he was a cool kid, did everything we would do like use public transport or eat cheap food to save pocket money, but what opened my eyes was at the end of the event, he left said goodbye and left in a Helicopter from the Hotel lawn! Unexpected yet later rang true to the stories I hear of his family.

[vickyv]

The Bhutto families owns over 40, 000 acres of farm land in Pakistan .

[kalidam.ajward]

Try the Rajapaksha clan of Sri Lanka for the next “big steal” episode

[jagsl]

Whilst the majority lived in filth and misery...these guys were playing polo
...
What sort of humans are these..

[revysingh]

This is why I love Vice--the willingness to tell the story of mass corruption when every other news outlet is busy telling the same narrative.

[dutcheastindiacompany]

Get elected... Loot... Flee.... Repeat... 😂😂

[alexshaykevich]

Story could be told without the weird, pandering slow motion shots of the reporter walking up stairs...

[chaivalla]

Correction:

@0:55 - Shah Nawaz Bhutto was not Prime Minister of Sindh (there was no PM on Sindh). He was however the Dewan of Junagadh for a very short time.

[AnonymousReader-ereg]

My family was close friends with hers before we cut ties due to political differences (over Karachi). We've lived in Dubai for over 40 years and visited them at least twice in the 90s. I can confidently say that $1.5 billion is a nearly negligible fraction of what they actually plundered from Pakistan. At first, I didn't think she deserved to die the way she did, but after seeing the deprived state of interior Sindh on a trip there a few years ago, I changed my mind.

[raz]

I'm Pakistani and this video is really well presented. I'd like to point out that unfortunately, we as a nation have failed and are 'corrupt' individually and while its easy to blame the government and leadership, we repudiate reforms and objective policies that shape each one of us.
Illiteracy and paucity of quality education is still the biggest issue we face today and it'd now require at least decades of work by honest and loyal politicians to make us stand on our feet again!
May Allah guide us all! Amen.

[rasinshuriken]

Her party is fully 200% corrupted now her son is exterior minister

[ezraastraeagoes]

It was great of VICE to get Atom Araullo aboard the team. I may have some bias for famous Filipino figures in journalism, I just love seeing Filipino representation in VICE.

[adamharris]

Bhutto family and Nawaz Shareef families have plundered Pakistan to a pauper state, yet the Army love them and keeps them in power.. Army generals are getting lion's share.

[EC-itfx]

I hate corruption, that country could be great but too much scum exists in the govt

[mamunahmed]

What about the role of the army in all this? While corruption exists in the civil government - I wonder what the relationship is like between the government and army.

[adnaanu]

In the early 2000s, one of my friends worked in Harrods. He served her and her family on the tills one day and said that she spent over £10, 000 in one go.